Labour will bring an end to the culture of limiting social care at home for frail, older and vulnerable people to just 15 minutes, Ed Miliband will claim today.

He will warn that the NHS faces “its most perilous moment” as the party puts forward proposals to integrate care from home to hospital.

The Labour leader will pledge to boost the NHS by 20,000 more nurses and 8,000 more GPs. He also wants to guarantee GP appointments within 48 hours and cancer tests within one week.

He wants to see 5,000 homecare workers within the NHS to “help those with the greatest needs, including the terminally ill so they can stay with their family at the end of life”.

Under Labour plans, all vulnerable older people would be offered a “safety check” to identify risks to their health including cold homes, loneliness and the danger of falling.

Speaking in Trafford, he will say: “We are the only party whose plans are fully funded, costed and based on the right principle that those with the broadest shoulders should bear the greatest burden. And we will use that money for a plan to train and hire more doctors, nurses, care-workers and midwives – so that they all have the one thing that patients need most: an NHS with time to care.”